NO ENGINES.
NO SUPPORT.
750 COLD WATER MILES TO KETCHIKAN, ALASKA.
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No Engines. no support.
All the way to Alaska.
A test of physical endurance, backwater know-how, and bulldog tenacity to navigate the 760 cold water miles from Port Townsend Washington, to Ketchikan Alaska.
“Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.”
– ANONYMOUS
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- Day Done: The Whole Unreasonable ThingFor three weeks, you’ve opened these emails to discover what went sideways while you were pretending to work. The answers usually involved salt-crusted electronics, dismastings, bad decisions near nameless islands, or a couple of human beings moving at 1.6 knots for the amount of time it takes to grow a turnip from seed. You watched
- Nothing Left in the TankHumans are generally advised to leave something in the tank. Save some money, get some sleep, keep a little in reserve for the inevitable. It’s solid advice—right up until tomorrow stops happening. Bruce Willis in Armageddon understood the loophole: if there’s no tomorrow, you can really open up the throttle on today. For three weeks,
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